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Fedorowicz
ENG3U
11/3/15
Lord of the Flies Essay
What is the nature of humans ? How does Mr.Golding use it in such a fictional story of
British boys to portray how truly dangerous people can be? In Lord of the flies, Mr.William
Golding uses the theme of human nature to show how easily a small society of british young men can
tear apart, and how dangerous humans can be towards themselves,
how a civilized human can turn into a filthy crazy savage. Mr. Golding’s fundamental
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He after gives up his time into hunting pigs, Thus changing the view of himself much more ever since the
beginning, slowly climbing into savagery.
On the flip side, Mr.Golding tries to show the purity within human’s through the character Simon.
He is very pure
and good, and has the most positive outlook. Simon is very different from the other British boy’s, he
always seems to be aiding the littluns and many sweet boy’s such as piggy. “ Simon sitting between
the twins and piggy , wiped his mouth and shoved his piece of meat over the rocks to piggy, who
grabbed it.” (Golding 75) This quote obviously dictates that Simon helped piggy by giving him a bit of
food, it portrays Simon’s wholeheartedness. In conclusion William tries to make readers visualize
Simon as a christ like figure. Pressoir 3
Finnaly , Mr.Golding uses major conflicts to display the theme of his. One of many
times which
shows this is when Simon passes away . After Simon’s encounter with “The Lord of the Flies” he
scurries back in fear to the tribe finding the boy’s dancing around the fire. He enters the middle and